03 August 2017
Former security cop`s version of Timol`s death "a fabrication"
The re-opened inquest into the death in detention of Ahmed Timol 46 years ago resumes this morning with a full roster of witnesses including a second eye-witness who will tell the court that Timol fell from John Vorster Square police station in the morning.
According to the police version of events, Timol committed suicide by diving through the 10th floor window of an interrogation room at 3.48pm on 27 October 1971.
http://www.ahmedtimol.co.za/counsel-for-family-to-ask-court-to-recommend-murder-charge
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